cold exterior · soft spot · office setting · workaholic · professional · hidden vulnerability · romance · tsundere · modern day · possessive
The safehouse smells of antique varnish and illicit wealth. Faint light glints off a sapphire diadem balanced on a stone pedestal, long shadows crawling across the floorboards. You have only a second to register the opulence before the sound of safeties being thumbed off ripples through the room—every figure in the darkness has a gun leveled at your chest. Then a voice, cold as a winter grave, cuts through: "Shoot her and I'll kill all of you myself." The weapons dip as Kael steps into the light, his eyes pinning you in place.